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Musk drops 24 of 26 claims against OpenAI three days before trial, gambling everything on two

The billionaire abandoned every fraud charge on Friday but kept the counts that strike at the legality of OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion

$649 billion AI spending spree faces its biggest test as Big Tech reports earnings this week

Investors want proof that the largest capital expenditure cycle in corporate history is generating returns, not just costs

Bill Ackman's AI bet: Nearly 40% of Pershing Square's portfolio is in Alphabet, Amazon and Meta

The billionaire hedge fund manager built all three positions when market sentiment was weak, paying forward earnings multiples well below sector averages

Alphabet commits up to $40bn to Anthropic in one of the largest AI deals ever struck

The investment combines an immediate $10 billion cash injection with $30 billion contingent on performance targets, as Anthropic's revenue surges to a $30 billion run rate

Data centres' insatiable power appetite giving new wave of generators added spark

AI's electricity demands have turned nuclear and geothermal startups from speculative bets into infrastructure plays investors will queue for

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as centrepiece of Cloud Next overhaul

The platform replaces standalone Vertex AI and gives businesses a single environment to build, govern and scale autonomous AI agents

Kitten heels, polka dots and jelly flats: Google data reveals a full-blown nostalgia wave in spring fashions

Search interest in retro staples from capris to chunky necklaces has hit record highs across apparel, footwear and beauty

YouTube brings creator partnerships into Google Ads to let brands run influencer campaigns alongside performance media

The integration allows advertisers to discover, activate and measure creator-driven ads within their existing campaign workflows

Fitbit expands AI health coach with personalised fitness plans and revamped sleep scoring

Premium subscribers will receive tailored weekly plans and workouts based on their individual goals

GeForce NOW adds subscription labels and six new titles to cloud gaming library

Nvidia's streaming service now shows which games are playable through linked Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ accounts

OpenAI deploys GPT-5.5 across Nvidia on Blackwell infrastructure in enterprise-scale AI agent rollout

More than 10,000 Nvidia employees are using the Codex coding tool, with the company reporting debugging cycles cut from days to hours.

Meta expands AWS Graviton use for agentic AI

The agreement makes the Facebook owner one of the largest customers of Amazon's custom Arm-based processors worldwide.

Are we headed for the nuclear age of AI after X-Energy raises $1 billion in upsized IPO?

The small modular reactor developer priced well above its marketed range and surged 27% on its Nasdaq debut, valuing the pre-profit company at $11.5 billion

How Google built its own AI chips to power everything from Search to Gemini

The company says it designed its tensor processing units from scratch more than a decade ago to handle the heavy mathematical demands of artificial intelligence

More than 120 crypto firms urge Senate to schedule CLARITY Act markup

The industry coalition warns the legislative window is narrowing more than 270 days after the bill passed the House with bipartisan support

Intel's blowout earnings vindicate the CPU comeback, but the hard part is next

A quarter that crushed every estimate has sent shares to a 26-year high. Now Lip-Bu Tan has to prove Intel can keep building at the pace the market demands

Kraken lists CHIP token as GPU-backed AI lending protocol joins the exchange

USD.AI tokenises graphics processing hardware as collateral to enable onchain financing of artificial intelligence infrastructure

DeepSeek launches V4 preview with 1.6 trillion-parameter flagship and aggressive pricing

The Chinese AI lab says its largest model approaches frontier performance while costing a fraction of closed-source rivals

Citi unveils AI avatar for wealth management clients built on Google Cloud and DeepMind

The always-on assistant, Citi Sky, will roll out to Citigold clients this summer alongside human financial advisers

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI on secondary markets with $1 trillion implied valuation

The Claude developer's annualised revenue surged from $9 billion to $30 billion in a single quarter, fuelling a buying frenzy for scarce private shares